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    Holiday Health Hints and the Faces of Stroke Prevention

    As I get ready to celebrate the holidays with my family this year, I'm preparing to pay special attention to my father and grandmother. Both have had a stroke in the past. And while both are doing well, I learned ...

  • Tom Halverstadt

    Tom Halverstadt

    Tom Halverstadt survived a devastating brainstem stroke because of several lucky factors, including bystanders who summoned emergency help and a treatment team that had the expertise he desperately needed.

  • Rodney McDougal

    Clot-Busting Drug Study Aims to Help Stroke Patients With no Options

    Coughing. That is the sound that awoke Jennifer McDougal on the morning on Dec. 28, 2010. Her husband, Rodney, was in the bathroom preparing for work, and coughing. Suddenly, he collapsed. Rodney, then 42, had a history of hypertension, so ...

  • Mark McNeary

    Mark McNeary: "A miracle of a different sort"

    For Mark McNeary, a retired music industry executive, his miracle story began shortly after finishing Saturday morning chores at his ranch in Kingman, Ariz. Sudden, searing head pain and throat problems made it clear that he needed immediate medical attention. ...

  • Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor's "Brush with Mortality"

    Syndicated columnist and radio host Garrison Keillor shares his story of a recent stroke in his Chicago Tribune column, published today: The doctor who saw me in the ER wrote in her report: "nice 67 y.o. male, flat affect, awake, ...

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